HR Strap Battery Level

I can grab the battery level of my Radar, Lights, Shifting, Speed Sensor, etc.

But there isn't an AntPlus listener for HR Straps. The most common external sensor by far. And most straps, including Garmin for several years, publishes battery levels via ANT.

Anyone know of another way to grab HR Battery Level, maybe using lower-level calls from CIQ?

Thanks!

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jim_m_58 over 2 years ago +1

I wouldn't limit this to ANT, as the newer Garmin HR straps are ANT and BLE, and there are a bunch of others on the market that are BLE.

Then you have the issue on watches where you don't know if the…

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0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

I wouldn't limit this to ANT, as the newer Garmin HR straps are ANT and BLE, and there are a bunch of others on the market that are BLE.

Then you have the issue on watches where you don't know if the HR is coming from the watch or an external sensor

0 DaveBrillhart over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Many sensors are both. ANT is best for this. Watches won’t respond and ANT is an 1:N connection protocol. Plus the pattern is well established in CIQ with listeners for almost everything else.